Dr Michael Fullilove is the Executive Director of the Lowy Institute for International Policy.

He has been associated with the Lowy Institute since its establishment. He wrote the feasibility study for the Institute in 2002 and served as the Director of its Global Issues Program from 2003 until his appointment as Executive Director in 2012. He has also worked as a lawyer, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, and an adviser to Prime Minister Paul Keating. He remains a Nonresident Senior Fellow at Brookings and serves on the Council of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London.

Dr Fullilove writes widely on Australian foreign policy, US foreign policy and global issues in publications including The New York Times, Financial Times, Foreign Policy and Foreign Affairs, as well as the Australian press. He graduated in arts and law from the Universities of Sydney and New South Wales, with dual university medals. He also studied as a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford, where he completed a master’s degree and a doctorate in international relations.

In 2015 Dr Fullilove delivered the Boyer Lectures. His lectures were published as A Larger Australia: The ABC 2015 Boyer Lectures (Penguin). He is the editor of Men and Women of Australia! Our Greatest Modern Speeches (Viking), and the co-editor, with Anthony Bubalo, of Reports from a Turbulent Decade (Viking), an anthology of the Lowy Institute’s best work. Dr Fullilove is also the author of Rendezvous with Destiny: How Franklin D. Roosevelt and Five Extraordinary Men Took America into the War and into the World (Penguin), which won the 2014 NSW Premier’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction.

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Catfish Voodoo

Catfish Voodoo

Date: February 1, 2018

Time: 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm

National Press Club of Australia, 16 National Circuit, Barton ACT 2600, Australia

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Stu King & Greg Stott

Stu King & Greg Stott

Date: February 2, 2018

Time: 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm

National Press Club of Australia, 16 National Circuit, Barton ACT 2600, Australia

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Irene Natividad Address

Irene Natividad Address

Date: February 7, 2018

Time: 11:30 am to 1:30 pm

National Press Club of Australia, 16 National Circuit, Barton ACT 2600, Australia

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Bad Luck Kitty

Bad Luck Kitty

Date: February 8, 2018

Time: 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm

National Press Club of Australia, 16 National Circuit, Barton ACT 2600, Australia

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Mike Price Combo

Mike Price Combo

Date: February 9, 2018

Time: 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm

National Press Club of Australia, 16 National Circuit, Barton ACT 2600, Australia

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The Hon Kevin Rudd Address

The Hon Kevin Rudd Address

Date: February 12, 2018

Time: 11:30 am to 1:30 pm

National Press Club of Australia, 16 National Circuit, Barton ACT 2600, Australia

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Professor Emma Johnston Address

Professor Emma Johnston Address

Date: February 14, 2018

Time: 11:30 am to 1:30 pm

National Press Club of Australia, 16 National Circuit, Barton ACT 2600, Australia

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Sam Rainsy Address

Sam Rainsy Address

Date: February 15, 2018

Time: 11:30 am to 1:30 pm

National Press Club of Australia, 16 National Circuit, Barton ACT 2600, Australia

Roy Payne's Hillbilly Bop Safari

Roy Payne's Hillbilly Bop Safari

Date: February 15, 2018

Time: 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm

National Press Club of Australia, 16 National Circuit, Barton ACT 2600, Australia

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Rachael Thoms & Lachlan Coventry

Rachael Thoms & Lachlan Coventry

Date: February 16, 2018

Time: 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm

National Press Club of Australia, 16 National Circuit, Barton ACT 2600, Australia

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Hon Peter Dutton MP Address

Hon Peter Dutton MP Address

Date: February 21, 2018

Time: 11:30 am to 1:30 pm

National Press Club of Australia, 16 National Circuit, Barton ACT 2600, Australia

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Jeff & Deej Band

Jeff & Deej Band

Date: February 22, 2018

Time: 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm

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Hugh Barrett

Hugh Barrett

Date: February 23, 2018

Time: 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm

National Press Club of Australia, 16 National Circuit, Barton ACT 2600, Australia

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Local Craft Brewers Degustation

Local Craft Brewers Degustation

Date: February 24, 2018

Time: 6:30 pm to 11:00 pm

5 course - matching beers - guest speakers - PRIZES!

National Press Club of Australia, 16 National Circuit, Barton ACT 2600, Australia

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Professor Margaret Gardner AO Address

Professor Margaret Gardner AO Address

Date: February 28, 2018

Time: 11:30 am to 1:30 pm

National Press Club of Australia, 16 National Circuit, Barton ACT 2600, Australia